My Favourite Reads of 2025
Hit my target of 52 books read for the year. You know what? I love reading. Completely trite to say so, but there it is. Several times throughout 2025, while I was lying on my couch (a battered yet fiendishly …
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When a Character is a Weapon (Featuring Chrome Lin Vu)
I recently watched a thoughtful, interesting YouTube on ‘Writing Characters Who Are Weapons,’ by Tim Hickson. He’s a New Zealander who runs the channel HelloFutureMe, which deals with both writing as a craft and analysing pop culture. He’s got some …
BookTube Interview – Five Sci-Fi Novel Recommendations
I recently did an interview with Jonathan, an Australian BookTuber who runs a channel called Words in Time. He’s got some great content, so I recommend you go and check it out. I’ve embedded the interview in this article, …
Ghost of the Neon God – Aurealis Award Winner
Australia’s premier award for speculative fiction is the Aurealis. It is a juried award, and genuinely features the best of Australian SF. I get anxious every year in the lead up to the short list announcement, elated if I make …
My Favourite Reads of 2024
Hit my target of 52 books read for the year. As I keep saying (because it’s true) reading is part of the job of a writer. I put aside a couple of hours every evening to do so. When I …
Three ways to write a novel: The Odyssey, The Fever Dream, and the Fix-Up
The Escher Man took me ten years to write. Aliens: Bishop took five months. Ghost of the Neon God was a short short story, then two short stories, then a final expansion into a novella. Three books, three radically different …
Well This Sucks (how Amazon screwed my new novel, and what to do about it)
Preorders are, apparently, a big thing. Publishers place huge importance on them.
As far as I can tell, there are three main reasons for this: 1) They are a way to gauge future interest in the book, and therefore inform …
News Update: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Award Nominations, New Projects, and Toxic Fandom)
It was a huge honour, about a month back, to receive two nominations for the Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier prize for speculative fiction. I got category nods for ‘Best Science Fiction Novel’, (Aliens: Bishop) and ‘Best Fantasy …
Double the Punk – Two New Releases – Ghost of the Neon God and The Escher Man
I have not one, but two books coming out this year. Which makes me appear incredibly productive, but it’s all an illusion, as you will see. The books:
Ghost of the Neon God is a novella set in Australia. I …
My Favourite Reads of 2023
Finally hit my target of 50 books this year. Reading is part of my job as a writer, and I aim to do so every evening. I’m not fast and wouldn’t want to be. I savour what I read (when …